The author of ‘Blight’ explains how humans supercharged fungal pathogens

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By Zoya TeirsteinJul 17, 2023, 10:30 am219 pts
A young girl, home alone, wakes up in the middle of the night and walks over to her neighbor’s house. She opens the front door and encounters a horrific scene: a zombified grandma committing an act of cannibalism. Instead of teeth in the woman’s mouth, it’s long tendrils of fungus. That’s one of the…

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